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Saramaccan
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Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun
Nominal plural is marked by Agreement on the determiner.
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No nominal plural word
Example 3-27:
di wɔmi; dɛɛ wɔmi
di
def
.
sg
wɔmi;
man
dɛɛ
def
.
pl
wɔmi
man
the man; the men
Example 3-28:
De
si hen.
De
3pl
si
see
hen.
3sg
They saw it.
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Language:
Saramaccan
Feature:
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun
Source:
Fieldwork data
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